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Performance assessment of patient on dialysis
Fabio Manfredini1, Nicola Lamberti
1Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences - Section of Sport Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
Abstract:
Patients on dialysis are poorly active and show a low level of physical functioning. Questionnaires and objective measurements of spontaneous physical activity are available as well as complex-expensive or simple-unexpensive tests useful to assess the patient's exercise capacity. Performance assessment unravels patients' capabilities, enables a tailored exercise prescription and provides predictive information on main clinical outcomes and therefore this topic should be of interest for nephrologists. A routinary minimal pool of tests might be usefully performed in a dialysis centre to stratify the patient's risk and to recognize patients in need of exercise training in order to address them to community-based or rehabilitative programs.
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